Political Parties Quotes - Page 14

• There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency.

  Susan George

  Party, People, Political

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• Tactics and strategies ought to be based on what the real world is, and we do not have the political power to do this. We're not about to shut the government down over the fact that we cannot, only controlling one house of Congress, tell the president that we're not going to fund any portion of [Obamacare]. Because we can't do that.

  Tom Coburn

  Leadership, Money, Real

  "Tom Coburn Says Republicans Pushing To Defund Obamacare Are Not Based In The ‘Real World’". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2013.

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• The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at conception and ends at birth.

  Barney Frank

  Children, Party, Day Care

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• I think Republicans will not win again in my lifetime ... unless they become a new GOP, a new Republican Party. And it has to be a transformation. Not a little tweaking at the edges.

  Rand Paul

  Party, Winning, Reality

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• In the 2012 election, Obamacare, as it's called, and I'll be more polite - the ACA ...was a major issue in the campaign. I campaigned all over America for two months, everywhere I could. And in every single campaign rally I said, 'We have to repeal and replace Obamacare.' Well, the people spoke. They spoke, much to my dismay, but they spoke. And they reelected the President of the United States.

  John McCain

  Leadership, Party, Health

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• When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Party, Political, Doe

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• Europe resolved a great problem-the problem of the Zionist danger. The Zionists, who constituted a strong political party in Europe, caused much disorder there. Since they had a lot of property and controlled an empire of propaganda, they made the European governments helpless.

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  Strong, Party, Europe

  Friday sermon on International Jerusalem Day, October 5, 2007.

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• Mary Matalin and James Carville have given me more hope when it comes to love and relationships than any romance book or chick flick ever.

  Meghan McCain

  Family, Party, Book

  Twitter post from Jan 19, 2014

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• Human artifacts not only include material structures and objects, such as buildings, machines, and automobiles, but they also include organizations, organizational structures like extended families . . . tribes, nations, corporations, churches, political parties, governments, and so on. Some of these may grow unconsciously, but they all originate and are sustained by the images in the human mind.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Party, Government, Organization

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• One point in my public life: I did all I could for the reform of the civil service, for the building up of the South, for a soundcurrency, etc., etc., but I never forgot my party.... I knew that all good measures would suffer if my Administration was followed by the defeat of my party. Result, a great victory in 1880. Executive and legislature both completely Republican.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Party, Building Up, Political

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• We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their position, but stand for the defence of those interests in which they find themselves.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Party, Wind, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1502, Delphi Classics

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• the Republicans love to say that the Democratic Party is ruled by 'special interests.' But when pressed to name these 'special interests,' the usual reply is women, blacks, teachers, and unions. Those are 'special interests' to be proud of - because together they comprise the majority of Americans. What about the 'special interests' that dominate the Republican Party - the oil companies, the banks, the gun lobby, and the apostles of religious intolerance?

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Teacher, Religious, Party

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• No political party can ever make prohibition effective. A political party implies an adverse, an opposing, political party. To enforce criminal statutes implies substantial unanimity in the community. This is the result of the jury system. Hence the futility of party prohibition.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Party, Alcohol, Political

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• I think the idea that the hedge fund manager gets lower taxes than the taxi driver or the physics professor is insane. The legislators who leave that policy in place are derelict in their duties to be rational and fair. There are plenty of them in both political parties. It's totally outrageous.

  Charlie Munger

  Party, Thinking, Ideas

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• On the issue of Iraq, it is my hope, and my challenge to my colleagues, that our debate will be based on what is best for the future of our nation and for Iraq, not what's best for a political party or presidential campaign.

  Mitch McConnell

  Party, Iraq, Issues

  "McConnell touts prospect of divided government". www.cnn.com. January 3, 2007.

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• Stephen Harper is trying to load the dice between now and the next election in his own favour. Never before in the history of Canada has a government tried to use its majority to unilaterally change Canada's election laws with no support from any political party.

  Thomas Mulcair

  Party, Government, Law

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• The characteristic mark of this age of dictators, wars and revolutions is its anticapitalistic bias. Most governments and political parties were eager to restrict the sphere of private initiative and free enterprise.

  Ludwig von Mises

  War, Party, Government

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.480, VM eBooks

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• The Constitution never even mentions political parties, let alone the Republican and Democratic parties, yet all the election laws help to protect them from competition.

  Bob Barr

  Party, Law, Political

  "Election 2008: Presidential Candidate Bob Barr". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. August 21, 2008.

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• I very much believe in values-based leadership, and that the values that I believe in and try to govern by are transcendent values. They have nothing to do with race or even with political parties. Secondly, I think nothing substitutes for the power of the grassroots by showing them the courtesy of going to them where they are and inviting them to take part in the political process.

  Deval Patrick

  Believe, Party, Thinking

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Monarchies are above political parties. Sometimes political parties do things that are to the disadvantage of the country because they want to beat the other party. In Iran, where we have different religions and ethnic groups, it was a unifying factor.

  Farah Diba

  Country, Party, Iran

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Now, I am not caring today, for myself, anything at all about a political party tag. So far as I am concerned, I want to know what the man stands for....When I find out these things, then I know who it is who should receive my support, and I care not what his party tag is....Today, our duty transcends party allegiance; our duty today is allegiance to the Constitution as it was given to us by the Lord.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Party, Caring, Men

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• No political party is justified to continue in existence unless it clearly states the principles which it advocates, the platform upon which its candidates stand, and then with integrity, when and if elected, carry out those principles and live up to that platform. Except that be the case, we as Latter-day Saints should not align ourselves to any party, because we do not have the basis upon which we can make an intelligent decision. We must know what they stand for before we can favor them with our vote.

  Henry D. Moyle

  Integrity, Party, Intelligent

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• Communism is not a political party nor a political plan under the Constitution; it is a system of government that is the opposite of our Constitutional government, and it would be necessary to destroy our government before Communism could be set up in the United States....[Communism] even reaches its hand into the sanctity of the family circle itself, disrupting the normal relationship of parent and child, all in a manner unknown and unsanctioned under the Constitutional guarantees under which we in America live.

  David O. McKay

  Children, Party, Hands

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• All secret oath-bound political parties are dangerous to any nation, no matter how pure or how patriotic the motives and principles which first bring them together.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Party, Patriotic, Political

  Ulysses S. Grant (2013). “The Personal Memoirs of General U. S.”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• There is hardly any politically minded man who acknowledges and agrees with every point of the program of a political party.

  Hermann Goring

  Party, Men, Political

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